AGARTALA, March 18 (TIWN): A four members team of Press Council of India is scheduled to visit Tripura on March 28.

It is to be mentioned here that the team is going to visit the state with an aim to check the alleged irregularities and violation of the existing norms.

According to the sources report the four-member team is arriving on March 28.

The main aim of the visit of PCI in the State is to check out the alleged irregularities and violation of the some norms.

It is to be mentioned here that Press Council of India was first set up in the year 1966 by the Parliament on the recommendations of the First Press Commission with the object of preserving the freedom of the press and of maintaining and improving the standards of press in India.

The present Council functions under the Press Council Act 1978. It is a statutory, quasi judicial body which acts as a watchdog of the press. It adjudicates the complaints against and by the press for violation of ethics and for violation of the freedom of the press respectively.

However, the Council consists of 28 other members of whom 20 represent the press and are nominated by the press organisations/news agencies recognised and notified by the Council as all India bodies of categories such as editors, working journalists and owners and managers of newspaper, 5 members are nominated from the two houses of Parliament and 3 represent cultural, literary and legal fields as nominees of the Sahitya Academy, University Grants Commission and the Bar Council of India.

The members serve on the Council for a term of three years. The Council was last reconstituted on May 22, 2001.